This page is the “Personal Network.” It displays work from the websites a member is following, in the order it was published. It also provides a way to engage in dialogue about the work in the form of “Cargo Comments.”

The “Projects/Images” toggle provides access to an Image Gallery, offering an alternate way of browsing websites in the Personal Network.

The small thumbnails on the top of this page are a random sampling of websites in a member’s Network.
Catching Waves 
Catching Waves is a floating monitor to measure wave crests. An accelerometer records forces onto an arduino. Ideally, the wave monitor would enable designers to...
Particle Aggregation 
Particle Aggregation is an abstract research proposition initiated by Jorg Sieweke to try to design particles that fit together so that they would aggregate...
Gardez L'eau 
In the 1890's Pittsburgh city engineers decided it would be more economical to combine sewer and storm water pipes. After the population mushroomed, the rivers...
Windup Wind 
Windup Wind is a crank-powered exhibit revealing the mechanics of alternative energy conversion while lighting and blowing a miniature hill and turbines. It was...
Greenscape 
A collaboration with Claire Hoch and Will Schlough as part of Bob Bingham's Environmental Sculpture course, Greenscape is the landscape component to the Carnegie...
Spinning 
Steel weights embedded in latex tubing are spun at various speeds by a dimmer switch on a ceiling fan. Connected to a 'lazy susan', the volume of the tubing changes...
Recycling 
A lump of Velveeta™ cheese melts from the upper funnel into the blue dog poo mold below. Fans cool the liquid cheese into a solid. The solid is then flipped onto...
Floating 
A half-filled tank floats in a four foot diameter tank on top of a steel table. Two battery powered pumps encased in plastic spin inside the upper and lower tanks...
Green Roof Roller Coaster 
Green Roof Roller Coaster (GRRC) was a commissioned BigBot installed at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh for the Robot250 festival. A collaborative project with...
Melting 
500 peeled crayons are loaded into a steel funnel. Gravity causes the colored wax to melt over an embedded hot plate at the top of the pedestal. An interior funnel...
Eroding 
The salt blocks erode down the steel tray into the vessel below. As the rain fills the vessel and evaporates, the salt remains and rebuilds itself. The cycle of the...
Blowing 
100 wooden valves limit the amount of air blown through the upper and lower boxes to shape the fabric in between. The time required to open each valve led to the...